International newspapers and websites paid attention to what they said were indicators of the imminent Israeli attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and some of them doubted the ability of the Israeli army to eliminate the Palestinian resistance. It also focused on the anti-Israel student movement within American universities.

The Washington Post newspaper touched on increasing international fears about the repercussions of an “Israeli attack that appears imminent” on Rafah, and pointed out in a report some manifestations of concern among Gaza residents about a change in the pace of ongoing aerial bombardment in areas near Rafah in recent weeks.

The report stated, "There is no evidence that Israel is prepared to transfer large numbers of civilians out of Rafah."

In the same context, a political researcher told the Telegraph newspaper that the attack on Rafah will put pressure on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), but will not eliminate it, indicating that it is capable of regrouping its ranks in the central and northern regions of the Strip.

The researcher believed that Hamas's reassembly of its capabilities "is bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which may fail to return the hostages and eliminate Hamas, which will drag Israel into a major political crisis."

According to the Guardian newspaper, residents of the Sderot settlement near Gaza doubt “the Israeli army’s ability to completely eliminate Hamas and fulfill the promise that Netanyahu constantly repeats to achieve complete victory.”

Police violence

On the other hand, the Media Part website highlighted the anti-Israel student movement within American universities, the arrests of student protesters, and human rights organizations’ criticism of police violence.

The website quoted an American historian as saying, “Sending police forces to university campuses and arresting peaceful students is a precedent, and the situation is likely to flare up as the elections approach.”

For his part, Ronnie Braumann, former head of Doctors Without Borders, told the newspaper “Lotan” that the humanitarian rhetoric adopted by Western democracies regarding the situation in Gaza does not change anything without concrete measures such as stopping the supply of weapons or even more symbolic measures, stressing that “the West "It evades the fact that Israel is an occupying power."

Source: Al Jazeera